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Robot Talk Episode 41 – Alessandra Rossi
EPSRC UK-RAS Network
17 Mar 2023
In this week's episode of the Robot Talk podcast, host Claire Asher chatted to Alessandra Rossi from the University of Naples all about social robotics, theory of mind, and robots playing football.
#IROS2022 best paper awards
Daniel Carrillo-Zapata
14 Nov 2022
Here we bring you the papers that received an award this year at IROS in case you missed them.
RoboCup humanoid league: Interview with Jasper Güldenstein
AIhub and Lucy Smith
20 Sep 2022
We talked to Jasper Güldenstein about how teams transferred developments from the virtual humanoid league to the real-world league.
Building a python toolbox for robot behavior
Sebastian Castro
07 Aug 2022
This post describes pyrobosim, a ROS2 enabled 2D mobile robot simulator for behavior prototyping.
RoboCup2022 underway – where to find the livestream action
Lucy Smith
14 Jul 2022
Find out how and where you can catch up on the action from RoboCup.
Happy Birthday Nao!
In our paper ‘10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review’, we present an overview of the evolution of NAO’s technical capabilities. We also present the main results from a scoping review of the human-robot interaction research literature in which NAO was used.
30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2020
Women In Robotics
13 Oct 2020
It’s Ada Lovelace Day and once again we’re delighted to introduce you to “30 women in robotics you need to know about”! From 13 year old Avye Couloute to Bala Krishnamurthy who worked alongsid...
COVID-19 robotics resources: ideas for roboticists, users, and educators
Sabine Hauert
13 Apr 2020
Robots could have a role to play in COVID-19, whether it's automating laboratory research, helping with logistics, disinfecting hospitals, education, or allowing carers, colleagues or loved ones to co...
#SciRocChallenge tests robots in a realistic smart shopping environment
Marta Palau Franco
18 Sep 2019
The city of Milton Keynes hosts from the 17th to the 21st of September the European Robotics League - Smart Cities Robotics Challenge (SciRoc Challenge). For the first time, international researchers ...
RoboCup 2017 results
Robohub Editors
04 Aug 2017
It was a return to the source for RoboCup 2017, which took place last week in Nagoya Japan, 20 years after its launch in the same city....
RoboCup video series: Junior league
Robohub Editors
21 Jun 2017
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. Established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable o...
RoboCup video series: Industrial league
Robohub Editors
14 Jun 2017
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. Established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable o...
RoboCup video series: @Home league
Robohub Editors
07 Jun 2017
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. Established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable o...
Robohub Digest 05/17: RoboCup turns 20, ICRA in Singapore, robot inspector helps check bridges
Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo
05 Jun 2017
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
RoboCup video series: Rescue league
Robohub Editors
31 May 2017
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. Established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable o...
RoboCup video series: Soccer league
Robohub Editors
24 May 2017
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. Established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable o...
What has twenty years of RoboCup taught us?
Oliver Mitchell
23 May 2017
In 1985, a twenty-two year old Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion. Twelve years later, he was defeated by the only player capable of challenging the grandmaster, IBM’s Deep Blu...
RoboCup video series: 20 years of history
Robohub Editors
17 May 2017
RoboCup is an international scientific initiative with the goal to advance the state of the art of intelligent robots. Established in 1997, the original mission was to field a team of robots capable o...
How we evolved a winning strategy for the RoboCup competition by imitating nature
Mikhail Prokopenko
01 Sep 2016
"In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team.” This observation by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre has been cited in multiple contexts, ranging from tactical p...
Robohub Digest 07/16: Tesla’s Autopilot question, lethal robots, RoboCup, and a brave 10-year-old
Jana Witt and Kassie Perlongo
01 Aug 2016
A quick, hassle-free way to stay on top of robotics news, our robotics digest is released on the first Monday of every month. Sign up to get it in your inbox....
Why football, not chess, is the true final frontier for robotic artificial intelligence
Daniel Polani
20 Jul 2016
The perception of what artificial intelligence was capable of began to change when chess grand master and world champion Garry Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing program, in 1997. Deep ...
Live coverage: Robocup 2016
Robohub Editors
30 Jun 2016
Robocup 2016 kicks off today in Leipzig, Germany. The event brings together 3,500 participants from 45 countries and regions competing in 17 disciplines....
In praise of robot football
Alan Winfield
09 Sep 2014
Republished here is a short piece for The Conversation reflecting on robot football: 4-4-2 becomes 0101: inside the competitive world of robot football, published 4 August 2014.
This summer the ...
Eindhoven wins 2014 robot soccer World Cup | Gizmag
John Payne
30 Jul 2014
“The [human] World Cup may have finished a few weeks ago, but there was another one played in Brazil just last week. The annual RoboCup competition was held in João Pessoa, including the ...
ShanghAI Lectures: Xiao’an Li “Action Skill Developmental Learning for Autonomous Soccer Robots”
Nathan Labhart
20 Feb 2014
Robocub 2013 in Eindhoven.
Guest talk in the ShanghAI Lectures, 2009-12-17
In the past decade, soccer robots have been developed greatly, and some of the robot soccer games have been showing more ...
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Robots Podcast: Robot soccer, with Manuela Veloso
Podcast team
04 Jul 2008
Link to audio file (32:34)To close this year’s soccer season after Spain’s victory in the EUROCUP we went to the robotic kingdom to see who was driving the game. With Prof. Manuela Veloso ...
